Friendsgiving & Leftover Turkey Soup

November 23, 2011

This year, Chicken Face and I held out first (soon to be annual) Friendsgiving! Sounds fun, right? Totally, except for one minor thing: I’ve never cooked a turkey before and had absolutely no idea where to start. Thus, I turned to Martha Stewart and began hyperventilating at the thought of figuring out how to gut a turkey, what a cheesecloth was and how to ensure that I don’t give all of our guest food poisoning.

With a little bit of research, I ended up taking somewhat of a risk and making my own turkey recipe of sorts. Let’s just say that it was a great learning experience, nobody died, and next year will be even better!

Post-friendsgiving, I had copious amounts of turkey leftover with not an idea what to do with it. I turned to my trusty friend Google and found THE MOST AMAZING Southwestern turkey soup recipe (yes, that’s supposed to be in all caps). I have to admit, I’ve never made soup before and was super excited with how easy and delicious it was. It tastes like a spicy tortilla soup. Crumble some chips on top and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

I give you mad props for cooking a turkey by yourself, I would have no idea how to do it! I probably would look up how to do it online or something! lol Friendsgiving does sound like a great time.

I don’t have friendsgiving, but every week my friends meet up and we eat then go bowling. So I guess that is our friendsgiving. I actually bowled well yesterday with a 174 – best score I’ve gotten in forever. Funny part is I found a pink 14 pound bowling ball at the alley, so people were laughing when I said I was using it, haha